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Book review: Critical Chain

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. To be honest, I wasn’t keen to read Critical Chain. But Critical Chain is different. What is critical chain? Critical chain is a way to streamline processes so that you avoid bottlenecks and increase throughput. Why not ‘critical chain’?”

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RIP Critical Chain?  

Proggio

Critical chain is not dead, but after many years of it being the primary technique for analyzing schedules and prioritizing tasks, there’s a better alternative today. A typical Gantt chart could easily have hundreds of similar dependencies, and the critical chain analysis helped distinguish one from the other.

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Level up your project schedules: 5 advanced techniques

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I recommend finding the right tools to help with this, and then using automated reports and views as part of your project scheduling process. Again, put your project management tools to work and use them for the heavy lifting. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management

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Project Management Tools and Techniques That Really Work

nTask

Project management tools and techniques that really work; that’s the problem statement. When it comes to project management tools and techniques, you don’t have just one technique or foolproof tool that you can use in every project of every organization. Project Management Techniques. Classic technique.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

A project management methodology is a set of principles, tools and techniques that are used to plan, execute and manage projects. The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Review” article from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM). No problem.

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Project Management Techniques That Deliver Results

Binfire

The most popular tool for this technique is the Gantt chart. 6- Critical chain technique. As the name suggests, it focuses on the series of important events in a project, which naturally take the longest time (and the bulk of the resources) to complete the “critical chain.”. 7- Extreme technique.

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7 Questions to Ask Your Team for Better Project Engagement

LiquidPlanner

For simplicity, we’ve divided this article into two main sections — project-based questions and employee-focused questions. . What solutions can we present to the customer as competing priorities or critical chain roadblocks emerge? . Do you have access to all of the necessary tools you need to complete projects? .